Evening Update

To further cut back our driving time tomorrow, we decided it would be best to stop for the night in Mackinaw City; the town right before the Mackinac Bridge. After calling 6 of the 11 hotels we found out that only 2 were open and neither of those were pet friendly. One gentleman tried to see if there was something he could do but you can't really hide an 80 pound Lab puppy that insists on befriending everything that moves.  We decided to still stop in Gaylord for supper, but then continue on to Cheboygan for the night. We ate the Alpine Tavern & Eatery and were not disappointed. The waitress's husband is originally from Maine and they had both lived in Portland for a while - small world. Jesse ordered a chicken plank dinner (fancy chicken tenders) that came with a ski (not joking, it was an actual ski with little divets cut into it) holding various dipping sauces. I ordered a burger (still slightly wishing I had gotten one at lunch so I needed to curb the craving) that was stuffed with cheddar cheese and bacon. I had never had a stuffed burger before and it was phenomenal. So yummy.  Now we are en route to Cheboygan, MI on the shores of the Cheboygan River. It's weird to think that tomorrow we will have reached our final U.P. destination. Here's to the last two hundred miles!